Office or Openoffice?

[Martee]

If you had the choice, which one of those two softwares would you use? Office or Openoffice? Make your choice!

For me, it would be Office just because I have used it all my life and making the switch to OpenOffice now would probably drive me round the bend.

 

[xpl0iter]

Well I use libre office!
Just because ubuntu has made it the default application!
And yes if I were to use windows I will use office. But only the free one that comes with the system.
Libre office loads pretty quickly compared to open office!

 

[Sam1]

LibreOffice is the best Open Source alternative but because of school stuff I have no alternative: Microsoft Office.

 

[Hubok]

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.

Need 2010 sometime soon...

 

[Jamiew2510]

OpenOffice all the way! It's perfect for me!

 

[xpl0iter]

OpenOffice all the way! It's perfect for me!

If you like openoffice, I guess you're going to love libre office!
Its so much faster!

 

[Jamiew2510]

Is it new? All I heard when I was searching for one, was OpenOffice, never anything about LibreOffice!

 

[xpl0iter]

The history behind both:
http://www.icewalkers.com/articles/libreoffice-vs-openoffice.html

tl:dr; Version
Open office was Sun's property. When Oracle bought Sun, open office development was discontinued. The members of the OpenOffice development team created The Document Foundation and released a new office suite: LibreOffice.

 

[Hubok]

So basically the concept of open source has a flaw at keeping it afloat. When OpenOffice's official support vanishes, the users don't even want to use the open source part of it.

 

[xpl0iter]

But imo SUN shouldn't have sold the company along with open office! they kind of like cheated all the developers.
Its good that they have started a new one!
I mean thats the beauty of open source. You have the code, you are free to continue the development or start a new one basically from the same code! You have lots of choices!

 

[Hubok]

But most people never use the open source code except for minor things. Everyone just relies on the company as if the source was closed.

 

[xpl0iter]

Sadly most people are like you said!
Which in my opinion should change! the world of open source is getting better and better. Linux gnome3 for linux is pretty cool!

 

[CHT]

On Windows, I have no choice but to use Microsoft Office due to the computer coming with it.

On Linux, it's LibreOffice for me.